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  • A MASTERPIECE !!!

  • Se nota la mezcla de la incidencia japonesa y el suspenso americano en esta magnífica composición de Jerry Goldsmith.

  • TIGER TIGER TIGER!

  • A note found in a briefcase of a down Japanese pilot read: "Go to the devil you hell!!!"

  • The Partnership of The 3 Reich and Kaiser-Reich Japan sind Ungewöhnlich! =)

  • Grew up watching a beat up cassete video of this movie my dad had. Loved every minute of it. I don't need to explain how I felt any further since I'm sure many share the same opinion I will now express. All I will say is I'm utterly disappointed with pearl harbor. There is no comparison to be made. Appariently people won't watch anything remotely historically correct at all and only go for stupid romance stories with modern movie obligatory sex scenes!

  • @ButterscotchSentry Yes, as a 30 year Navy aviation vet (and a father and uncle who served in the pacific), "Pearl Harbor" was.... well disappointing. This movie takes both sides. Also, must read "At Dawn We Slept" by Gordon Prange. Even the junior officers of Japan's Navy did not want to 'instigate' war with the U.S.

  • This is awesome!

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  • This is a bit different then the main title here, which cd is this from?

  • East meets West is the theme of another epic Goldsmith track. Soundtracks these days don't support their movie. Williams and John Powell (Bourne series) come close though

  • The quality of the recording and the clarity of the detail of performance is very impressive for 1970.

  • One wonders how it would've been had David Lean or Akika Kurosawa had directed this movie? One wonders it would've been if John Ford or Otto Preminger had directed it? Fox wanted Preminger to directed it,but the assignment went to Richard Fleischer. I saw this years ago in full 70MM print widescreen and 6-Track Stereophonic Sound when it was re-released during the mid-1970's.

  • @rayssonation Uhm ... I think Ford is a massively overrated director. It's just as well he wasn't involved in the filming of this flick, or we would have ended up with something like John Wayne in "Flying Leathernecks." Now, Otto Preminger and Akira Kurasawa ... that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish! :-)

  • @terentii  rate this.....

  • By the way, I'm very glad this movie has been remastered. I rented it when I lived in Japan and loved it. On a visit back to the US I bought an old videotape of it--wow, it had really deteriorated. The remastered dvd version is so crisp and beautiful, and the battle scenes are incredible. This is such a great movie!

  • @masushan

    You should watch the Blu-Ray edition of it thats even better and it has some small extended Japanese Scenes too, well worth the watch :)

  • Awesome cover

  • Superb movie, brilliant soundtrack. They don't produce this kind of quality anymore, what a pity.

  • All the chinks bastards should take notice, if not the Japanese will kick your ass

    again it will be America! God bless America and may the Gods protect the

    Emperor and Nippon!

  • This song embodies the warrior spirit! This movie would have probably had more oscars had it not been released the same year as Patton. Excellent cinematography, Excellent screenplay and diologue, Excellent special effects and painstaking attention to detail, and most of all very HISTORICALLY accurate, as opposed to that CRAP of a movie called PEARL HARBOR, what a disgrace to both nations fighting men!!!!

  • @CitizenPaine1776 so very true Peal Harbor only shows like 5 mins of history and the rest is just some love story like in the movie titanic, Pearl Harbor would have been great if it werent for the love story and showed more History

  • 憲法を改正して再軍備するしかない。北朝鮮や中国、ロシアの脅威­から日本の主権と独立を守る為、そしてアルカイダ、タリバンとい­った国際テロ組織の脅威から地球を守る為にも

    かつて米国の真珠湾を攻撃した時と同じような強大な軍事力を再度­、日本も保持せざるおえないであろう。

  • This soundtrack will forever downsize Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor.

  • @Wolcott A used piece of toilet paper is betther than that colostomy of a movie called "Pearl Harbor."

  • Epic film....with epic soundtrack.

  • I saw this as a kid in Las Vegas when it premiered. I was taken by the full scale battleship Nagato and all the aircraft replicas. The only major errors are when Yamamoto sat quietly during the battle when in real history he walked around nerviously, smoking a cigarette and was overjoyed when he heard about the success of the attack. He also never made the speech about the "sleeping giant", that's Hollywood myth.

  • @CaptainNomura

    Admiral Yamamoto was one of a very small minority of Japanese who knew full well that going to War with America would bring about the the Destruction of the Japanese Empire, and he was right. He knew deep down that Japan had lost the war from that day onwards. The Moral and spiritual strength of the Japanese could not contend with the material strength of the Allies.

  • @LoganDarkrider Very good. His Junior Officers felt the same also. The Imperial Navy knew what they were facing even though they attacked with fanatacism. They were much aware what was as stake. Yamamoto himself took position as Fleet Commander knowing he would be safe from assasins and to ensure he could provide the best opportunity for his country to survive a war he probably knew would doom Japan.

  • @LoganDarkrider Moral strength????? not when you a force for EVIL.... You're correct about Yamamoto.... nice p-38's... nice...

  • @irish89055 Those aircraft are P-40 Warhawks, not the P-38 Lightnings.

  • @cabbievonbump yeah, I know cabbie. I was referring to the P-38's that shot down the plane with Yamamoto in it in1943. We had intell through intercepts that gave us where he was. Too bad the intell before the attack on Pearl was used in time. Excellent movie, saw it twice at the driven- in... same night.

  • @LoganDarkrider

    Moral and spiritual strength, maybe. But outdated tactics really killed their momentum. The early Japanese gains were through trickery and subterfuge. When it came down to an even fight like at Guadalcanal, the Japanese infantry were banzai charging fortified American positions. They were so shocked when that failed to achieve victory that the commanders all started committing seppuku.

  • @DairDubh You are correct in your statement. The Japanese would have been capable of winning the war, probably not by invading the United States, but rather by forcing a peace after defeating their willpower and fighting them off efficiently at key battles such as Guadalcanal as you said already. Had the Japanese not been thinking as negative of failure in a way that they feel "suicidal" (literally), they sure would have had been capable to conquer all of the Pacific, Asia, and Australia. -Bryan

  • @LoganDarkrider

    moral strength of an invader??? it's Allies who had the moral strength!

  • @nomooon I think the moral strength comment was referring to the Japanese sense of duty and honour and the mental and emotional discipline it required. The tragedy is that this kind of spirit can't be harnessed better in peace time or in cooperation with nations and that humanity seems ill at ease in peacetime.

  • @LoganDarkrider This attack had as he saw it a thin chance but it backfired when the US flat tops were away and not all land targets were hit. He didn't think much of the goverment as well.

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  • @LoganDarkrider moral strength???

  • @CaptainNomura im pretty sure he did make that speech, just not when he did in the movie, but I could be wrong

  • @FutureMarine246 the movie producers actually admitted later that they included that fictional speech because they didn't want to end the film on the negative note for the Americans. Yamamoto was smoking his second cigarette when he heard about the success of the attack and was happy because he thought that now Japan can get the oil in Borneo that they needed and they can negotiate the cease fire but after learning that Japan attacked before the final warning was given, he knew war was lost.

  • @CaptainNomura Actually, Admiral Yamamoto did comment on the United States as a "Sleeping Giant", as he went to school here in the states then returned to Japan. It was in reference to the United States having industrial power, and man power. Admiral Yamamoto held great respect for the United States, and did not want to start a war with us, but was under pressure from the Emperor. I am a history buff, so I just wanted to clear that up.

  • @CaptainNomura He wrote it in his diary.

  • @CaptainNomura You have to make some concession to history when making a film but all in all this is a brilliant creation the likes of which we simply don't get any more, one of the best documentary/drama films ever and way way ahead of the recent Pearl Harbour" fantasy.

  • Best Pacific WW2 movie ever.

    This opening sequence is so damn haunting, all those proud, powerful Japanese Battleships and Carriers lined with men at the height of Imperial Japan, Zeros circling above them...

    ...And yet, the viewer is well aware that this awesome sight is doomed to uttery destruction at the hands of an enraged United States Navy for what they are about to do.

    Perfect music for the sequence.

  • @RogueCannon : my feeling exactly, you did put words on it. This music is so perfect because it give us a sense of the hell that will follow for both sides.

  • Pearl Harbour was the biggest Japanese victory in Pacifik War.

  • This movie is anything but "dated." It looks far better than Pearl Harbor because they used real airplanes and pyrotechnics rather than all that silly CGI. Also this film is much more historical and accurate and unlike Pearl Harbor it sticks to its subject matter and doesn't go wandering into the London Blitz and the Dolittle Raid.

  • Love the old movies cause they used not Computer graphics aka CGI and they go on location unlike some of todays movies my favorite is Patton that was a grade A classic to me.

  • One wonders how it would've been had David Lean and Akira Kurosawa had directed this movie?

  • @Bla31n

    If that were the case it would have been an absolute masterpiece methinks.

  • @LoganDarkrider Straight A's on that.

  • @Bla31n Kurosawa did work on some pieces, he's just uncredited. (8^)

  • @Bla31n Kkurosawa started to direct the Japanese portion.. he was fired...

  • @Bla31n Kurosawa was hired to direct the Japanese sequences, but apparently (from what I've read) he suffered some kind of nervous breakdown. For example, he kept ordering the ship sets to be painted whiter and whiter shades. He was replaced after a very short period of time. You can check this up on the internet.

  • @DaveM599

    I don't think it was a nervous breakdown. He was an absolute perfectionist and wanted the shade of white to be exactly as it was on the actual Japanese ships, thus he kept ordering for the sets to be repainted (until they got it right). I don't think the American production team had the time or money to be so nit-picky, so he was "let go" due to "creative differences."

  • @masushan I stand corrected. My comment was from 25 year old memories of Daryl Zanuck's biography. I suppose perfectionism could be interpreted as a kind of paralysis. Churchill had a saying basically to that effect. Goldsmith himself said that there's a lot of fear at the start of a project, but all you really need to do is just keep moving forward and (sometimes it's easier than at other times) you come across the backbone of what you need and the rest is just the details.

  • @Bla31n This movie was planned to be directed by Akira Kurosawa at first, however, he didn't, for some reasons. But I don't think he can make "Tora! Tora! Tora!" to be as good as this one. (For sure, I studied on his movies)

    Moreover, Kinji Fukasaku did a great job in directing "Tora! Tora! Tora!", I didn't even can imagine he directed "Battle Royale"...

  • An honest film.

  • 日本とアメリカ(米国)が共同で製作した最高の名作ですこのテー­マ曲もアメリカ人の作曲家が作られましたが、日本調の楽曲を駆使­し、この映画にふさわしい曲です。

  • @gunsou724 追記ありがとうございます。少年の頃映画館でこのオープニングを­観たとき日本人としてとても感動しました。しかしその翌年のミッ­ドウェイ海戦以降

    空母(A carrier)赤城(akagi) 加賀(kaga)  飛龍(hiryu) 蒼龍(souryu)を失い制空権が無くなり徐々に敗戦に向かっ­ていく事実を知り、後々「眠れる獅子?を起こしてしまった。」と­言う聯合艦隊司令長官の台詞が重いテーマとして残りました。

  • This movie was the best about the attack on Pearl Harbor. Both the American and Japanese actors were outstanding and the music was very good. The attack scenes were incredible and realistic, much more then the computer generated garbage in 2001's Pearl Harbor. That movie was nothing more then romance against the backdrop of World War Two.

  • Thank you. I am very glad for a Japanese when I have you say so. This music was used with Sheen performing all the members saluting to convey honor of the Great Japanese Empire navy on battleship Nagato in an opening, but it seems to be the thing which arranged Kuroda bushi (the dance music of the former Kuroda feudal clan of the old samurai) and thinks that I affected The Last Samurai (Hans Zimmer) of the back 2003.

  • Great music from the past !

  • Thank you. I am very glad for a Japanese when I have you say so. This music was used with Sheen performing all the members saluting to convey honor of the Great Japanese Empire navy on battleship Nagato in an opening, but it seems to be the thing which arranged Kuroda bushi (the dance music of the former Kuroda feudal clan of the old samurai) and thinks that I affected The Last Samurai (Hans Zimmer) of the back 2003.

  • @650kntflyby

    I totally agree. The music is SO POWERFUL !!

  • This movie was LOADS better than 2001's "Pearl Harbor". It has a place of honor in my World War II movie collection; "Pearl Harbor" doesn't even make the list.

  • a very well balance movie showing both sides

  • this is the best soundtrack I've ever heard in a movie ever. It shows the ill fated japanese army. very epic in my opinion. the most underrated film ever made!

  • es la bnda snora?

  • Jerry Goldsmith's take on the popular Japanese piece "Sakura'.

  • 日本の伝統的な歌の代表が「桜」。日本の古代の宗教音楽「雅楽」­の中で最も有名なのが「越天楽」。これらの旋律に基づいて作曲さ­れている。

  • esta musica japonesa es espectacular esta musica demuestra el sacrifio de los japoneses al bombardear pearh harbol

    como quisiera que esta cancion fuera el himno de japon seria espectacular

  • Me parece sensacional que puedas haber subido la musica de esta excelente pelicula. XD........

  • This movie showed the war from both sides of the conglict using famous american and Japanese actors.

    The attack itself is extremely well-done!

  • Some would consider it dated by today's standards but I think that some of the older films are the best. And I also particularly like this film because you get to see the situation from the Japanese perspective.

  • It's far superior to anything else put on screen to date.

  • @LoganDarkrider I concur. This is a magnificent film. Well written, directed, acted. A true classic! And, yes, it is certainly important that the film showed both sides in the initial conflict. FDR intentionally screwed w/Japanese oil access to provoke 'em at the behest of his BANKSTER masters. See Robert Stinnett's superb book, *Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR & Pearl Harbor*.

  • @LoganDarkrider that's why i like this movie and others like it- the film Gettysburg does the same thing. dont really care if the effects are old. we get the point

  • @Xeresa18 In this film Takahiro Tamura was a Japanese Pilot Mitsuo Fuchida

  • This seems like a good movie. I should check it out.

  • Yeah it's not to bad, but it's quite old, 1970 I think, but the music score is good

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